CSWookie calls for the eternal blessings of heaven upon SVN and those brought forth its glory into the world.

CSWookie

calls for the eternal blessings of heaven upon SVN and those brought forth its glory into the world.

hays

yes-- I started using SVN recently and it is really awesome

Red_Herring|zzzz

it isi just started using it with sourceforgeits really really handy

blanky

haha you guys are kinda late to the party :P

hays

yeah, I knowbut never needed it before nownow that I needed it enough to figure out how it works, I find its really awesome.(even for things I might not --need-- it for.

josepharmbruster

i can't imagine life without svn

blanky

haha

josepharmbruster

we use to use vss back where i worked.. but i pushed like HELL for svn.

hays

Our software people are idiots and still downselecting a source control system.

josepharmbruster

i'm always annoyed when i have to use cvs...

hays

I feel like slapping them.

putz

who isn't annoyed at having to use CVS?

josepharmbruster

it's never made sense to my why some projects don't step up

hays

Well, these retards will probably decide to use something that costs money

putz

like bitkeeper or something?

hays

they've got a few options on the list, I think vss is one of them

CSWookie

"downselecting"?

hays

Yeah, they are overengineering the problem

josepharmbruster

but, what burns me.... is when any source tree becomes PollutedBURNS.

CSWookie

Polluted?These jargoney terms you use.

hays

CSWookie: downselecting is taking a list of choices and eliminating some of them because they don't meet requirements.Its an engineering process usually for more complicated problems that picking a freaking source control systems/that/than

josepharmbruster

like, say... with tons of libs or other such naughty things... that maybe shouldn't be there to begin with

CSWookie

hays: It sounds to me like the way one makes a decision.

hays

CSWookie: sure, but downselection usually implied some amount of protracted study and coordination among many people to make a decision.

CSWookie

hays: Shall I have a sandwich, or pizza? (list) I shall have pizza, because the sandwich is not hot.josepharmbruster: Heh.I wish our source were more splitty.

josepharmbruster

so, in other news.. i'm working on a DICOM parser for a buddy of mine.

deltab

hays: like shortlisting?

josepharmbruster

looks like the community could use one, so i'm hackin away... he's going to use it for his masters thesis research...

hays

these guys have a bunch of old pascal, C, PL/M, ... VLSI,... C++, various ASM.. source files... and some of it only works on very old equipment... but anyways they want a way to put it in a safe place with version control, etc.